Our Team

Analysts
	Martin Kuppinger, is Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole, a leading analyst company for identity focused information security, both in classical and in cloud environments. Prior to KuppingerCole, Martin wrote more than 50 IT-related books and is known  as a widely-read columnist and author of technical articles and reviews in some of the most prestigious IT magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is also a well-established speaker and moderator at seminars and congresses. His interest in Identity Management dates back to the 80ies, when he also gained considerable experience in software architecture development. Over the years, he added several other fields of research, including virtualization, cloud computing, overall IT security, and others. Having studied economies, he combines in-depth IT knowledge with a strong business perspective.
	Dr. Horst Walther, born 1951 in Berlin, works as a management consultant and independent technical advisor for more than 30 years. His expertise focuses on the business to technology interface. At Kuppinger Cole he covers the domain of IAM-processes, roles, rules & policies and the management of IAM-projects.
	Sebastian Rohr, born in 1974, carrier started in 1998 with Siemens ICN. At that time, he concentrated his activities on network security, Smartcards and strong authentication. Afterwards, he became a member of the research group SIMS at Fraunhofer-Institut SIT, focussing on the security of mobile and wireless communication as well as the secure handover within mobile networks. During the past years, he worked for CA and was significantly involved in the development of the Identity Management market throughout the German speaking area, before he changed to Microsoft to hold a position as Chief Security Advisor.
	Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus is Senior Analyst at Kuppinger Cole and at the same time CEO of a small, high-profile management consultancy for security. Besides this, he is honorary professor for Security Management at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. He is a member of a number of advisory boards, among others, of RISEPTIS, the Advisory Baord for Research and Innovation on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Information Society. He was 8 years with SAP in leading security positions, responsible for Secure Software Development, Security Product Management, and Security of the Corporation (Chief Security Officer).
	Mike Small is Honorary Fellow Analyst at Kuppinger Cole. With over 40 years in the IT industry Mike's current focus is security and risk management in the Cloud. Until 2009 he worked for CA (now CA Technologies Inc) where he developed the identity and access management strategy for distributed systems. This strategy led to the developments and acquisitions that contributed to CA's IAM product line. He is a frequent speaker at IT security events around EMEA and contributor to the security press.
	Prof. Dr. Friedrich Holl is professor for office communication and administration automation, author and editor of many works in the IT Security and Safety area, director of the "Institute of Security and Safety (ISS)" at the FH Brandenburg and accredited German and European data protection expert, as well as director of the Master's degree program "Security Management" at the FH Brandenburg. In the last years he has worked on diverse projects in corporate security, PKI success criteria, functionality of emergency power supplies, etc. Besides the fields of data protection, data security and compliance he has in-depth knowledge of security management and IAM particularly in the context of public administrations and SMEs.
	For many years, Craig Burton was responsible for Novell's strategic direction, and became well-known for his inventions, such as: the Network Operating System, Network Services Model, and Hardware Independence for Networking Software, as well as many other innovative networking services. In 1990, he founded The Burton Group, which was acquired in 2010 by Gartner Group. He has been an independent consultant and analyst specializing in Internet Infrastructure since 1997.
	Dave Kearns spent 10 years as a network manager, ending up as Information Services Manager for the former Thomas-Conrad Corporation (now part of Compaq). In 1987, he was a founding SysOp of Novell's Novell Support Connection service on Compuserve and served as the first president of the Association of NetWire SysOps. He's a past recipient of NetWare Users International's Nuggie award for "outstanding contributions." Dave was formerly Technical Editor of Networking Solutions magazine. His "Wired Windows" column appears in Network World magazine. He also writes frequently for PC World, The Novell Companion, World Wide Windows and NC World. He's written, edited and contributed to a number of books on networking and is a frequent speaker before both trade and business groups.
	Fulup Ar Foll joined KuppingerCole in 2012 as a Senior Analyst. Besides his very strong background in large scale and high performance identity and access management, as well as information security architecture, Fulup´s research focus is related to consumer and citizen identity, mobile security and to the evaluation and assessment of technology standards. Prior to joining KuppingerCole, Fulup was master architect inside Sun Microsystems global software practice (which became Oracle in 2011) and focused on the scalability of large identity federation infrastructures. Fulup worked as chief architect for many Identity and security federated projects related to telco and government, as well as for other strong Identity and security infrastructure users such as Banks and insurances. Fulup represented the Sun software customer group inside normalisations bodies (Liberty, Kantara, OASIS, OMA, ITU), where he was an active member of identity and security related technical committees. Fulup has been a speaker at many international conferences.
	Alexei Balaganski is the CTO and Analyst at KuppingerCole. After graduating with an MSc degree in Mathematics and Computer science he has worked in the IT industry for over 12 years. His experience includes software development, network administration and information security. Before joining KuppingerCole in 2007, he has participated and managed multiple IT projects including e-commerce, high-load and cloud applications. At KuppingerCole his primary areas of interest are cloud security and management, identity federation, and SSO.
Business Team
	Jörg Resch, born in 1959, looks back on over 15 years of experience in Identity Management projects and their implementation in both SMUs and large corporations. For a number of years he led leadership positions in software product development and published many technical articles on a wide range of IM-related subjects
	Thomas Steinmayer, born in 1967, is working for more than 10 years in different areas of the IT distribution. In the past 5 years Identity management has been the main topic he has been working on.
	Reiner Fingas has a long history in Sales and Key Account Management within LXE (now Honeywell), a manufacturer of mobile communication equipment (Hardware and software) for industrial environments.

Integrated Industry knowledge

Sometimes, IT solutions can be applied in the same manner to all or at least many industries. But in many cases, industry-specific requirements and industry-knowledge is required for optimized solutions. From the very beginning we have provided industry-specific information, starting with matrixes which analyze the relevance of specific IAM technologies for different industries.

Through the personal history of every analyst, through our strategic consulting projects and through or ongoing research and the discussion with customers we have assemble industry-specific knowledge for most of the leading industries. Amongst these are Automotive and Manufacturing, Finance and Insurance, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Government, and Logistics. Given that our research focuses more on general IT aspects like IAM, GRC, BSM, or SOA, we are convinced that we can provide valuable services to any of these industries, bearing in mind the industry-specific requirements.